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Indie Tuesday: Circles and Cakes

Is it weird for a band to have an anniversary party after only one year of existence?  Maybe.  But there has been weirder anniversary parties. Really though, given the volatile nature of keeping a band together, one year actually is a reason to stop and party.

Tonight, join Circles and Circles at Starline as they celebrate their relatively lengthy togetherness.  They invited Fresno's Aspen Hollow, Akasha and LA's Ready Aim Fire, to play and eat cake with them.  Seriously.  There will be cake.

Enjoy some show related videos after the break...

Fresno likes Stone Foxes

If you were older than 19 you might have missed last night's show at Starline.  But those under that age didn't seem too.  There were a lot of them.  Frisco's The Stone Foxes played and I've never seen Starline so packed on a Tuesday night.  Was it because school's out or is Fresno all about Stone Foxes? 

A brief video of The Stone Foxes last night:

Fresgeek Weekend: Saturday night venue hopping

It's all about the Tower District Saturday night for music (like it is pretty much all the time). 

Audie's Olympic at Club Fred welcomes Spindrift with Fresno's Brother Luke & The Comrades and JohnQ (from Love, the Captive) DJ-ing.  The Starline counters with Goodbye Hidden Betty, What Hands Are For with Fresno's From Blood to Wine and The Kid's International.

It sounds like a good night to hop back and forth between the two clubs.  If you time it right, maybe you'll circumvent all the annoying waiting around in between bands and their sound-checks.  Plus it's an easy drunk-in-an-alley walk between the two places.

Some video of Spindrift if you take the jump with me:

INDIE TUESDAY: Portland Invades

There will be less dorks out this Tuesday at the Starline (that's a good thing), so it may be easier to enjoy things tonight. 

Portland's The Friendly Skies stops in Fresno.  Playing as well, Windowsill Rose and Brother Luke and the Comrades.

Indie Tuesday: All About Dorks [updated]

Just in case you aren't sick of the myspace messages and Fresno blogsphere posting [It's Mike and Heather's blogsphere, I'm just trying to write in it] we'd like to remind you our podcast is having its three year anniversary party tonight at Starline in the Tower District.  Look at the flier, it tells all.

Chrysalis, Tokyo Death March, It'll Grow Back and The Overdubs will be playing and we will be watching.

This is your chance to tell us we suck, in person, for just five bucks.  That's a friggin deal.  And don't worry, we won't get your money, that's for the folks putting it on.  We'll take your beer donations though - blogging and podcasting makes you very thirsty.

Also, we will be recording for Dorktown Episode 62 all night so if you want to be on it, talk to me.

[UPDATE: Door will likely open by 9:15, first band (probably Chrysalis) will start close to 9:30.  Check the comments for any more updates and don't worry if you get there early because the Starline Grill and Livingstones, next door, will be serving...ya lushes]

*For those who care, we'll be updating this post with probable band lineup times and any other show news, whenever it becomes available.

It wouldn't be Tuesday without the Starline

It wouldn't be Tuesday without a show at the Starline. This one is all Fresno bands.   Tonight's menu consists of the experimental  jazz of Emerald Fusion, the alt-rock of Coloured Pictures and the alt-progressiveness of From Indian Lakes.

If you go out to Starline tonight, it might be a good idea to start building up your ATL (alcohol tolerance level) for Indie Tuesdays.  Because in three weeks you're gonna wanna be there for our podcast's three year anniversary of saying every version of the F word to Fresno.  Details coming.

Enough Tasting Already

The Taste & Toast of the Tower sucks for non-winos.  Yeah I said it, big whoop, wanna fight about it?

But I guess it's not meant for the beer folk.  That's in a couple Saturdays.  Yes, there was food and tea too, but when you've already tasted the tower (many times), you just want to sit and have a real meal.

It was still fun though, seeing new and familiar faces roaming the district and enjoying themselves.  Plenty of pics and a small vid'  from Thursday, after the break:

The Thursday Top Three

Three of the coolest things to do in the Fresno area Thursday:

Find out what JJ Brown is all about.

Bootlegged In Fresno: Rademacher

We'd like to begin a new segment for The Fresnan called "Bootlegged In Fresno".  We'll get some random, legally questionable, Fresno audio and post it. 

Our first victims?  Fresno Indie Rock kings Rademacher.  Victims because it's not straight-from-the-board quality, it's kind-of-little-bit-sorta-illegal-bootleg quality.  And it comes from Saturday night's Undercurrent party.

Click it:Rademacher live "Playing For Fun"

Hey, what the hell, let's throw in some bootleg video too.  Rademacher's "If U Got Some Magic":

Indie Tues: Your Art Sucks!

Coming to the Tower D's Starline club tonight is Alexander T Kent and their funnyass "Your Art Sucks" song.  ATK is a side project of Say Anything's bassist, Alex Kent.  Also showing is Portland's BoomSnake with Goodnight Sunrise and The Lauderdale.

Fresno's own Flight 409 may or may not be playing.  In any case, I bet you could buy them a drink at the show.  I wouldn't mind one either.  I'll take a Stella or even a Rolling Rock, thanks.